Which to use
“ICJ” is a name and “itch” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,411
- “ICJ” frequency rank
- #18,113
- “itch” frequency rank
- 67524
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ICJ | itch |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Initialism of International Court of Justice. | A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area. |
Letter map: ICJ vs itch
Shared letters muted; letters that set ICJ and itch apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Role in the sentence - ICJ and itch
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ICJ is aname and itchanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67524, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ICJ is recorded at frequency rank #49,411, classified as aname. itch is at rank #18,113, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ɪt͡ʃ/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 67524, this pair ranks #62,946 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of ICJ vs itch
Shared letters: ci. Private to "ICJ": j. Private to "itch": ht.
"ICJ" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "itch" · 4 letters · shape VCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- itch ← icth · itcch · itchh · ithc · ittch · tich
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "ICJ" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "itch" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #62,946 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ICJ" and "itch" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ICJ vs ith". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #62,946 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.